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TMC Method #6: Easy Automated $1700/month: A BHer's guide to Exploiting Google Custom Search!

Great guide from MMD. Guide by FightSocialism






Hello All,

I posted this on another forum and it has gotten alot of fanfare...so here it is for my MMD members....

This is a method I read about in the past and adapted it to my own needs. Use your brain when following this guide and I am SURE you can creatively create tons of cash using this little explored facet of Google.

Lets Get Into Some Details...

Background

Google Custom Search has been around since late 2006 and it really didn’t make the huge impact I thought it would in the Search Engine Optimization....That is until it was adapted for my uses  

I figured out that Google Custom Search gave me a brand new way to link together and cross promote my entire network of niche sites, and I thought that was pretty neat. 

But let’s stop for a sec and evaluate three things that make GCS especially useful for us Search Engine Optimization’s and Affiliate Marketers, shall we? 

• GCS engines can be highly targeted, returning extremely relevant results. This means that we can create a GCS that will satisfy the search needs of our site’s users based on their specific interests; and a satisfied user is a loyal user. 

• GCS engines allow us to return results only from the websites we choose. This means that we can set up a GCS to promote only those sites within our network. So if we have a mini-network on home development, our GCS can be set to only return those relevant results from sub-sites within our network. For our mini-network on home development our GCS might return results from sub-sites that provide mortgage offers, information on concrete polishing, or how to select granite countertops. This allows us to cross promote the sites within our network instead of having visitors turn to our competitor for more in-depth information.

• GCS is made to be monetized. You can display your Adsense ads in your search results and thus can make money from the increased impressions when people search within your GCS.

Diggin Deeper

From the standpoint of Search Engine Optimization, GCS is like shooting fish in a barrel because it lets you bypass the usual google.com search completely and in so doing, you bypass your competition! Of course, as I’m sure many of you who have played with Google Custom Search have already seen: your search engine is only as good as the number of viewers you can funnel through it. Meaning, if you have a GCS that only does 20 searches a day then you are really not going to see any tangible benefit to having it setup on your domain.

The hardest thing about making your custom search profitable is getting traffic to it. Often people add GCS to their website as an afterthought. Maybe they just feel like it is a cheap & easy way to provide search functionality and increased accessibility to their users. That is all well and good, but we aren’t just trying to make our site more accessible, we are trying to make some extra money, and this implementation of a Google search is rarely profitable because only a small percentage of your websites visitors will ever use it.

As of this post, I am running a HUGE amount of different GCS engines. I have a GCS engine for every single niche I am involved in. Every time I start a new niche, one of the first things I do after going online is to create a GCS for it. I constantly maintain and update my GCS’ settings and configuration, adding and removing websites from each niche network. This is a lot of work, but depending on the subject matter for each niche, the profit returned from the GCS alone can rival the profit I make on the niches individual websites themselves. 


But still, we face the same problem. My many GCS engines are useless and won’t make a cent unless I am providing them with a sufficient volume of visitors performing searches.

Rather, what we need is a way to take every one of our visitors interested in that given niche and direct their attention towards using nothing else other than our niche’s GCS to find the answers they need. This is where my evil plan unfolds...

The secret here as with all BH is thinking outside of the box. Sure lots of websites offer inline search functionality or something similar to GCS, but how about offering a search-based service outside of a proper website? How about getting people to search for answers in your niche without ever even visiting your website, and without ever even knowing your website exists in the first place?

What I am referring to here are desktop widget platforms like Google Desktop or (my favorite) Windows Vista Sidebar. Even web-top widget platforms like Netvibes, Facebook and more. For the sake of this post, I am going to focus solely on Windows Vista Sidebar. Now I know vista is a bit outdated right now....but use your brain on how to adapt this....(think iPhones, Blackberry, Facebook Groups, Facebook PPC etc etc)

Out of curiosity, I started messing around with was the sidebar widgets. They have made it incredibly simple for people to create and publish their own widgets to the Windows Live Gallery website for other people to download and use. Also, Windows Vista Sidebar widgets can be very lucrative since there aren't many people who have made these sidebar widgets! 

A Vista sidebar widget is comprised of simple HTML and an XML file that acts in many ways like a PAD file does in as much as it identifies your widget and its provenance. If you know how to copy-and-paste and some basic HTML, then you can easily create a desktop widget.

Time to Take the Red Pill

Finding the proper niche is key to doing large search volume. Be SPECIFIC. For example, one of my most high traffic search engines was one that enabled people to interpret their dreams. 

Realizing that people love to know what their dreams mean, I did some brief research and compiled a database of dreams and their meanings. Then I created a website around that database and did all the usual Search Engine Optimization stuff on it, got it indexed and laid in some Adsense ads just for good measure. 

Next, I went to my Google account and set up a custom search engine. The setup interface allows you to target your search engine to a pre-defined list of websites or to have to search the entire web. For my purpose, I made the custom search engine return results from ONLY my website that I had made around the dreams database I compiled. That way, not only do I stand to profit from the ads displayed in the SERPs but since all the SERP results are for pages on my site, I am funneling traffic into my site which in turn shows more of my ads.

After going through all the setup steps, Google spat out the code for me to copy-and-paste into the HTML for my Sidebar Search Widget. 
I am not going to go into detail on how-to create your widgets as it is extremely easy to do and you will be able to figure it out on your own with a little help from a Google search on the topic...

So my little search widget was designed with nice clean interface and a snappy title and then I published it to the Windows Live Gallery website. Within one week, over 1000 people had downloaded my widget to their desktop sidebar. Getting that kind of desktop real estate on peoples computer screens is something that most internet marketers would KILL for. My search box is on their screen every day and it continually sends their requests to my website.

The important part is repeating this process on many different subjects. The more subjects you cover, the more search volume you will pull. The beautiful thing here is the sky is really the limit. If you want to pull in that $50/day I’ve been talking about, then you better be prepared to create a GCS for every niche you are in. And you better be prepared to present each of your GCS’ in a different widget for each platform. Ie: Create one widget for Netvibes, one for Vista, one for Google Desktop, etc, etc. Once you get the hang of it, you will find that you can create a simple template for each platform and then just plug in the different GCS code into each one. The sky is the limit man!


To find new cutting edge content crawl http://www.archive.org/index.php and make a website database easily. You can also utilize Google or Yahoo Trends to get Volcanic ideas for widgets

How about creating a database of Bible verses, and then creating a Bible Study search widget that funnels all searches into that website? How about creating a website of food and drink recipes and making it searchable via a desktop widget?

Ideas, Ideas, and More Ideas....

The databases provided give you an excellent leg-up in creating websites with large amounts of information that are perfectly appropriate for Google Custom Search widgets.

Another Idea I brainstormed is to use Paid Traffic/Paid Semi-Targeted Visitors (I use www.xgcmedia.comfor this) to toss them onto a juicy landing page offering your free widget that does whatever (interpret dreams, daily doggy obedience steps, famous quotes, healthy recipes etc etc use your brain)

Another thing that can be done is paid sign ups...like how some people literally buy sign ups for their offer, for their free ebook to get those people on their email list, for their free software download....these purchased sign ups can be used for your widget download(check the link above for this type of service)

Here are some other widget ideas to get you started:
-Lyrics Search Widget
-Torrent search widget
-Ebooks search widget
-Video Game Cheats Search Widget
-Myspace Layouts Search Widget
-Baby Names Search Widget
-Restaurants Search Widget
-Celebrity Gossip Search Widget
-Product Recalls Search Widget
-Software Search Widget
-Bible Verses Widget

In parting, here some more food for thought for all the BHer's:

Instead of just relying on Adwords for profit, how about a desktop search widget that returns Amazon Books with your Affiliate Link?

Think Think Think Guys! This is where the real money is.

Conclusion

The success or failure of this method, like every money making technique, depends on how much creativity you employ, and how much volume you push. 

Further, the number "1700" is completely arbitrary; it makes for a nice round number and a good title for a post. Truth is, if you are smart and play it right, there's no reason you can't pull in alot more than $1700/day (alot more...think outsourcing...think about how much iPhone widget, Blackberry App World, Crackberry make just from sales of all sorts of widgets like these!). 

On the flip side....If you go about this all half cocked about it you probably won't do nearly as well. So if you are about to gripe and whine about not being able to pull $1700/day (which is pretty easy to do) then take a step back and ask yourself if you really are doing everything right and pushing enough volume.


ALSO

If this will help you guys here's some resources to help ya get the ball rolling...

Resources:

Below are some resources for creating sidebar gadgets
http://archworx.wordpress.com/2006/1...sidebar-gadget


How to develop widgets? Try this search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...ts&btnG=Search

If you are still getting that feeling of being stuck in the mud heres a big hint.....goto to freelancer.com and hire a widget developer And ask him to place your search code....he will know what to do if he is worth his salt..

Submit your widgets :
Some websites allow to submit your widget and after some googling you can find them. So search and submit your widget. Suppose your widgets are downloaded by thousands of peoples so amazing the potential of earning and after sometime it will be automated earning and you just have to edit websites occasionally in your custom search engines that can be done easily in your account here http://www.google.com/coop

Hope these help!

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TMC Method #1: Make $5 per day per site, rinse and repeat!! Zero Investment

This is the first method I am posting, and I am proud because it is defiantly a good one. This method came from MMD(MoneyMakerDiscussions) and it was posted by Fazee (not the author)


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Introduction

Five Dollars a day can make a lot of difference for many people especially if they are making it from one site, and hence they can set up as many $5/day sites as they can, and at the end of the month, it all accumulates to a handsome income.

Even if just one site is set up generating $5/day consistently, it would be $150/month, and for some it can make a lot of difference because although on surface it looks just a “tiny” fraction of an income for those claiming to earn thousands of Dollars each month but when you look closely you would see that we can do a lot with this “tiny” income.

For example, let’s say a site is generating consistently $5/day, and $150/month, we can flip it on flippa.com or warrior forum after just one month, or two months if you want to make it look more consistent, for $500 or $1000. So you see how beneficial can be “tiny” $5/day.

Earning $5/day from a site whether it’s a free blog or a site running on a proper domain, is extremely easy, and only requires just 1-2 hours a day’s work, not more than that. If you are not willing to work one hour a day then please stop reading now, and go on dreaming big bucks and running after various crap products promising you false riches.

And if you are one of those who really want to succeed online, then please read on and change your life once for all.

What I’m about to show you in this report is a simple step by step method that anyone can use to make $5/day from one website consistently. You can make more than $5/day from this method but I’ve kept it to the minimum because it’s the least you can earn with the right amount of effort put in to this method.

I won’t bore you with my story, and how I discovered this method [although I didn’t discover it because it’s known to all of us already, I just modified it a little bit to get the results I wanted] and so on because you and I both know how truthful these stories are in reality.

The method I’m about to show you uses Adsense to make $5/day from a single site. I didn’t use CPA because for most of you it would be very difficult to get accepted by any of the affiliate networks whereas Adsense is universal and has a very low barrier or no barrier at all for getting accepted by them.

The whole method that I wrote in my ebook is based on my own personal experience and experience of my 10 friends to whom I taught this method.
All of them are earning in the range of $5-$10 a day, and their earnings started within one and a half week of implementing this method.
So you see this is not theory that most marketers out there write about without implementing their own methods.

I’ve laid down each step as clearly as possible so that you can implement this method immediately after just one reading of this report.
You don’t need anything to implement this method except just a free blogger account, an Adsense account, and willingness to change your life for better.

So without any further ado let’s get down to business.

Step 1

Go to http://www.blogger.com and open an account there if you already don’t have one. When registering a sub domain, try to choose one that is a bit broad range or general, and can cover many topics or niches under it. In other words don’t restrict your domain to just one niche but rather it should cover as many as possible.

And when your blog is created, click on the settings tab, and then on the Formatting tab. The first option is that of number of posts to be shown on the main page. By default it shows 7. You need to change it to 2.

As a result of this change, the number of posts shown on your main blogger page will be two. I’ll explain the significance of this change a bit a later in the report.

Now is time to make our first post on our newly created blog and start the whole process.

Go to www.google.com/trends and click on the More Hot Trends link.

The new window will show you the top 100 trends being searched by the people at that time.

You can click on any of the trends that look to you interesting, and check its Hotness.

Always choose trends with rising graph. If there’s a dip in the graph then don’t choose it because it shows traffic drop for that trend or in other words the dropping popularity for that trend in the search engines, because fewer and fewer people will be searching for it.

After choosing a trend, go to your blog’s dashboard and click on New Post. In the Title of the post, copy & paste the exact title of the trend as shown on the Google trends page for that particular trend.

Now in the body of your post, put the exact trend keywords again and use h1 tag to highlight them.

As many of you have already observed that there are many stories on your chosen trend both in the search results and under the trend on the Google trends page.

Here’s what you have to do next:

Take at least two stories on the same trend from search results and summarize their first paragraphs in your own words so that you have at least 3 to 4 lines of text on the same story or trend in your own words.

Put this short paragraph in the post body right after the trend title which you highlighted using the H1 Tag.

Now you can copy the rest of the story or better, various pieces of the story, from any result and paste them under your original paragraph.

Please make sure that your post should not exceed more than 12 lines.

Why not more than 12 lines? Because you are not here to provide full info to the reader, you are here to make them click on any adsense ad to exit your website to find more information on that trend or story and a good percentage of the visitors will click on an adsense ad to exit the site in this way.

At the end of the post add 2 lines in your words again. Like a concluding paragraph.

Now the last step before you publish your post. On the trend that you choose you will see some related searches just copy and paste them in the label section of your post. (Below where you enter the text you will see a box for related searches).

Now our post is complete and you can hit the Publish button to publish your post on your blog.

You can also add a related picture to your chosen trend. 

Before moving on to step 2, repeat everything above 2 more times so you have 3 total posts.

STEP 2

This is the second method that we will use alongside with our first method of Google Trends discussed in Step 1 earlier. 

In this step 2 we’ll target various products that are being searched because everyday people are looking for information on different products and also buy them online.

Go to amazon.com and choose some products.

And people are searching for information on these products and looking to buy them. When you target a product based keyword e.g aerobed for kids, and post an article on this product/keyword, Adsense ads will also be related to this product and information related to the content in your post. Hence people will click on your Adsense ads to get more information or if your Adsense ad is showing some great deal or discount on purchasing that particular product then naturally your site’s visitors will click on that ad. What this means for you is better CTR and good Adsense earnings.

The main advantage of targeting such products is that the majority of them offer high payouts per click. At times you can go upto $1 per click on some of these and even higher occasionally. 

The first thing you need to do in order to exploit this method properly is to go to amazon.com or some other product site that you can think of and open the google keyword tool in another tab or window. This will allow us to find products with a higher CPC.

Enter the name of the product in the google keyword tool and then you will see how much people are paying google per click for traffic coming from searches of that keyword.

I usually target products that have minimum of $1.00 CPC. But you can go for much higher, there are products with CPC as high as $5. 

Although this doesn’t mean that same CPC will be offered for a product when its ad is being shown on your website but it does allow you to target higher paying keywords.

Once you have decided on the product you are going to use, you are going to have to make a post on your blogger blog.

This is how we are going to structure it:

The title of the post should be the exact keywords as being used by the people to search for a product. You can simply copy paste the product name from the google keyword tool and use it in your post title. 

The body of the post

Simply copy the product description and some good review and paste it in the body section of the post. 

But as with our post in the Google trends section, add a short paragraph in the beginning of the post e.g an introduction of the product and add a concluding short paragraph at the end of the post.

In the labels section of your post, add related keywords to your product including the main product name. If you are using amazon.com then you can copy the Tags Customers Associate with your chosen Product.

Just copy them, if your chosen product have such tags on the product’s main page, and paste them one by one in the labels section of the post.

And then publish your post.
Since you are targeting products in your site too, so don’t miss out a chance to earn some extra affiliate commissions. You can also use affiliate ads or links related to your targeted products in your blog/site.

Place anchor text affiliate links in the posts that you make on different products so that if a visitor decides to buy that product then he should go to the main website through your affiliate link. As a result you’ll be earning some good affiliate commissions too along with your Adsense earnings.
Apart from the traffic coming to your site due to the trends about which you posted, you’ll also be getting some long term traffic due to your post on any product with good search volumes that people are searching for.
Every day target a different product with high search volumes and good CPC. Use Google keyword tool to check the profitability of any product. There are literally thousands of products to choose from for your one daily product based post.

You should target specific product based buying keywords being searched by the people on net, and make your post on it and use it in your text body and use it as an anchor text link for back linking for traffic purposes and getting better search rankings on the SE’s.
So far at this stage you would have made three posts on three rising Google trends, and one post on a product with good CPC and higher search volumes.

Now it’s time to add Adsense blocks in your blog.

Go to the monetize option and select the option with the maximum ads.

Step 3

Traffic Techniques

After making four posts, three on hot trends and one on a product (I usually recommend doing 2 posts on either your chosen product or target two different products, and as a result you’ll have in total FIVE posts on your blog daily), now it’s time to drive some heavy traffic to our site so that we can get the ball rolling. Don’t worry driving traffic won’t take a lot of effort from you.

Technique 1

Digg.com

The first source of getting traffic and indexed extremely fast, usually under an hour, is to make post on dig.com.

I won’t go in to details on how to register and make a post but I would tell you what to do when making a post on digg because it would greatly increase your chances of driving traffic to your trends posts.

First of all make at least 5 new email addresses, you can also use any of your own 5 email addresses if you have that much.
Then make 5 new digg accounts using each of these emails with different user names.
If over time, any of your digg account is blocked you can make a new one by using a different email, or using a vpn or a proxy at the least.
Now you’ll make 5 posts on digg using different account for each post. In the URL section of the digg’s post, make sure that you post the full URL of your blog’s post and not URL of your blog.

This is the correct URL that needs to be placed in the URL section of the digg’s post.

As you can see the URL has the title of the blog’s post in it.
In the description section of the digg’s post you can copy some lines from your blog’s post and paste them there.

So using this process, you’ll make three dig posts for each of your three trends’ blog posts, and one or two product based blog posts.

Note:

Since there’s a chance that your dig accounts will start to getting suspended or banned, so in order to avoid them getting banned, you can use the following tip provided by Brad Grosse to me, and I quote him: “digg stories other than your own sometimes and participate in the comments n real stories.”

So after you’ve made four or five posts on dig then move on to the second Traffic Technique.

Yahoo Answers

This method will also help you get some good heavy traffic and instant rankings within 30-40 minutes for your targeted keyword or trend.
In this method you’ll post five or four questions (depending on the number of posts you made in your blog), and get answers to these questions with a source link in your answer pointing to that blog post’s URL.
Now either you can yourself post a question and then answer it using a different yahoo account, or you can ask any of your friends to help you in this.

Your question should contain the trends’ keywords in it, and the answers to these questions also contain these keywords.

So you’ll make three questions targeting each of the trends about which you made a blog post, and then the answer to these questions should contain a source URL pointing to each blog post’s URL.

In the same manner you’ll ask question regarding the product that you are targeting and then post or have an answer posted with a source URL pointing to your blog’s post.

After completing this traffic step, move on to Traffic Technique 3.

Traffic Technique 3

Twitter

In order to use this technique, you’ll first need to add minimum of 2000 followers in your twitter account. But don’t worry, I’ll describe a method that you can use to add more than 2000 followers without any hard work at all.

If you have some auto adding followers’ tools then you can use them, and if you don’t have such tools then you can use the following method:
So first of all go to twittercounter.com/pages/100

There you will find a list of top 100 twitters with most followers.
Select at least ten people that you would like to target and follow. Try to target people with 10-20k followers and more if you like.
Now for this step it would be better to have Firefox but if you are using the latest IE with tabs option then it’s okay.


So open ten tabs and in each tab you must have each profile open, and as a result you would have 10 tabs with 10 twitter profiles of your targeted 10 twitter people. Now follow all of them, one by one and follow all the ten profiles.

Every time you follow someone your name comes on top of their list of followers, so anyone who is following them will follow you, anyone who is following their followers will follow you first, anyone checking their profile will check your profile, anyone that sees their twit see yours first, so if you have 10 profiles and you keep following and unfollowing them every 5 minutes and within 10 minutes you will have 200-300 people following you. Basically top 10 twitter guys get 1000s and 1000s of adds every hour (not only that they get thousands and thousands of visitors to their profile), and when they are adding they check their followers so if you are on top of their list they would follow you as well. As a result of this method you’ll have more than 2000 followers in no time, and after that you can keep on doing this to add more followers.

You can use this method first to make your twitter account loaded with followers, and then start using the full Adsense method.
And the best thing with this twitter method is that you won’t have to use proxies or rotate ips.

Now once you have a sizeable number of followers in your twitter account, you can either use auto tools to post excerpts from your blog posts with a link to your post on twitter or if you don’t have access to such tools then you can use www.Fleck.com

Just make an account on fleck, and drag the “Fleck” button to your browser’s tool bar and start tweeting your posts’ content on twitter.
When using fleck, make sure that you tweet just the title of your blog post, with a link to your blog post.

Another Tip from Brad Grosse:

Here’s another small useful tip from Brad Grosse, and he says that “Twitter will give you more followers when you reply to people you don't follow. They will reply back and your name gets out there.”
Note:

The main emphasis of the twitter method is not to do global conversation about topics, but rather to add as many followers as possible and then drive them to your posts to have them click on the ads. And believe me most do.

We are not using twitter method for just taking part in conversations but rather to tweet about our posts or hot trends, and drive them to our blog.

Traffic Note:

And if you want you can also use and/or add just two more sites for driving traffic to your site and these are:

1- reddit.com
2-yahoo buzz

With reddit you must remember that your post title on reddit should be attention grabbing or interesting because you’ll get a lot of traffic from reddit only if your title of the post that you make on reddit while submitting your story is interesting, otherwise you may get less traffic.

Yahoo buzz on the other hand is very similar to dig in respect of the style of post submission, and indexing results because both Google and Yahoo index yahoo buzz stories in less than an hour and you can easily find your story ranking on the search engines in no time after you submit it on yahoo buzz.

Now it’s time to implement this whole system laid out in this report. If you won’t implement it you won’t make a single cent.
Five Dollars is the minimum amount that you can make by using this system, and I personally know guys who are making around $10 daily from single sites by using this exact method, and majority of them have more than 10 sites each generating $5-$10 daily.

I DID NOT COME UP WITH THIS METHOD IT WAS IN A WSO AND IT WORKS GREAT, IT IS A GOOD WAY TO START OF FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DONT HAVE MUCH TO INVEST, AND FOR THOSE WHO DO YOU KNOW THE MAGIC WORD
"OUTSOURCE"

THANK YOU

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